"Woods and forests have been essentialt to the……" — Robert Macfarlane
"Woods and forests have been essentialt to the imagination of these islands, and of countries throughout the world, for centuries. It is for this reason that when woods are felled, when they are suppressed by tarmac and concrete and asphalt, it is not only unique species and habitats that disappear, but also unique memories, unique forms of thought."
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Robert Macfarlane
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15 Quotes by Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane has 15 quotes on this site.
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We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves
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As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as…
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Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the…
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All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest.…
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Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
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Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand,…
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Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive…
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By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than…
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I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.
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A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something…
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Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.
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President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially…
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More Asphalt Quotes
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
— Ilya Ehrenburg
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How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more…
— John Huston
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Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror…
— Unknown Author
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Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the…
— Unknown Author
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Mr. Huston (directed Marilyn in Asphalt Jungle and The Misfits) was an exciting looking man. He was tall, long-faced, and…
— Marilyn
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Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand,…
— Robert Macfarlane
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If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran…
— Cale Yarborough
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At the Tour, you always have some fantastic days and some days where you hit the asphalt. Today was an…
— Jens Voigt
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I learned to swing on monkey bars over asphalt. I learned that if you fall, it hurts, so you try…
— Unknown Author
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I was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain`s naughty seaside postcards. When Marilyn Monroe`s first film was shown…
— Diana Dors
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In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady…
— Alan Weisman
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